More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 68

"But how to save you, Tamlane?" quoth Burd Janet.

What happens: save, quoth · To what, where: you, Burd Janet

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 save	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 save	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 save	mark
5	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 save	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Tamlane	punct
8	Tamlane	Tamlane	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 save	vocative
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
11	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 save	conj
12	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Janet	compound
13	Janet	Janet	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 quoth	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save in a quote	to-infinitive		you				Tamlane vocative	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	quoth	present		Burd Janet					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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